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Mike Tanier, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
In a story glutted with broad caricatures, Hunt and Liddy are maybe the broadest and perhaps the least inherently sympathetic.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
In that case, our oceans could be glutted with rip-roaring cybernetic frogs, Jurassic-Park style.
—Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
Luxury can swiftly glut.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
Now add on to that glut another category of product that stores have to deal with: returns.
—Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 26 June 2022
The internet is glutted with second-by-second countdown clocks and the mania is even spurring a hike in hiring by crypto firms worldwide.
—Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 19 Mar. 2020
Now, thanks largely to those export terminals, the global market is glutted.
—Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
That’s even as the market is already glutted, with prices down about 30% in 12 months.
—Fortune, 12 Nov. 2019
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
For one, a glut of competitors flooded the market in the years after MedMen’s audacious arrival, looking to capitalize on California’s green rush.
—Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
The change is under way, as a glut of synthetic media is tripping up search engines such as Google.
—Nathaniel Lubin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
But now, with an album coming out, there’s been a glut of great Collier Content: an interview with Colin and Samir, a really fun Switched on Pop episode, and an interview with CBC.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 10 Mar. 2024
Lange explains in her book that the problem was a glut of them—America just had so much space to build shopping centers, compared with other countries, and then along came Amazon and every other kind of online retail.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Many homebuilders were scarred by the Great Recession, when a glut of homes on the market crashed prices.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
There is a glut of big, expensive and expansive TV shows these days, but there isn't a glut of big, expensive and expansive TV shows that are actually worth watching.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Verb (1) and Noun
Middle English glouten, probably from Anglo-French glutir to swallow, from Latin gluttire — more at glutton
Verb (2)
probably from obsolete glut, noun, swallow
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2
Noun
circa 1546, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
1600, in the meaning defined above
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